http://arkomina.com mina arko Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:32:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm spending my days in the library, reading and writing about the city, design and the senses, experience design etc. So at the moment my best friends are Lefebvre, Nicolescu, Simmel, Weber etc. I quite enjoy the research and the writing and wish I would find time to do it ... http://arkomina.com/blog/910/writing http://arkomina.com/work/900/pine-tree I got home more than a month ago but it still feels like I'm running in between places. After returning back to Ljubljana, I flew to Riga to do another CityBeat exhibition. Hard work and lots of fun:). Then I went straight to Berlin where I had the interview with ... http://arkomina.com/blog/895/back-home-new-studio Today I joined Anna and her friends to go mushroom picking in Sipo, close to Helsinki. It was a great and successful day! There were many beautiful poisonous mushrooms in the forest. I forgot my camera but luckily I could take some iphone photos. They're all on Flickr. http://arkomina.com/blog/891/fly-agaric CityBeat, the interactive installation we have been developing for the past year and a half is finally set up on the Lasipalatsi square in the centre of Helsinki. In case you are in Helsinki, we are having an opening tomorrow, 26.8. at 19h. CityBeat is also my final thesis in ... http://arkomina.com/blog/888/citybeat-lasipalatsi Via MyFonts. http://arkomina.com/blog/881/yey Juhannus in Mustasaari. There is a ghost living on this island. I didn't see it. http://arkomina.com/blog/870/juhanus So this is how my summer will look like. Working on CityBeat in Lume studio together with Ben and Jari. I am documenting the process here. No summer holidays for me!! http://arkomina.com/blog/865/my-summer For the past three months I have been kayaking, cycling, hitchhiking, walking and driving across New Zealand. I also managed to structure my final thesis and have spent days in library writing literature reviews and my thesis guidelines.We got a grant from Finnish Bioart society to develop ... http://arkomina.com/blog/861/news I left cold and dark Helsinki and flew to sunny and windy Wellington to do my ex-change. I am making a small collection of this city's lettering. Lots of signs are nicely painted by hand. http://arkomina.com/blog/851/wellington-new-zealand I just got back to Helsinki after spending almost a month back home. It was probably one of the best visits so far. I missed all my friends and Slovenian vine and weather! After arriving back to the cold, snowy and dark winter I started to question my affection towards ... http://arkomina.com/blog/845/ljubljana-lee-miller http://arkomina.com/work/789/arja-raatikainen http://arkomina.com/work/811/40-hours-2 In the end of November we visited Tirza in Berlin, where she is working for Image Shift (it was nice to see Sandy and Pierre again). There was a great exhibition for graphic design addicts in the Art library in Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz, World as Words (ending on the ... http://arkomina.com/blog/778/berlin-etc http://arkomina.com/work/758/citybeat